BlackBerry wins $815 million in overpaid royalty to Qualcomm

BlackBerry said Wednesday it has been awarded $815 million in an arbitration decision for excess royalties it had paid to chip company Qualcomm.Qualcomm and BlackBerry had entered into an agreement in April last year to arbitrate a dispute over whether Qualcomm’s agreement to cap certain royalties applied to payments made by BlackBerry under a license agreement between the two companies.[ iPad Pro vs.Surface Pro vs. Pixel C vs.

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Qualcomm has faced charges of excessive royalty rates by regulators as well as other companies.

Apple filed a lawsuit in January in a U.S. federal court in California against Qualcomm, objecting, among other things, to the chip company charging a royalty on the selling price of phones rather than on the value of the specific baseband chipset supplied for the iPhone.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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